New Month, New Record, New Contest!

Before I get into the fun contest I promised, I want to thank everyone who visits the blog, subscribed to my twitter @Rick_Ferraro, and most of all have bought and enjoyed my books. The month of July saw a little over 10 times as many copies sold for Rogue's Bane alone, with Unearthed Destiny picking up speed as well since it was released this month and folks are finishing up the first book. If you're one of those who just started Rogue's Bane or have finished it and are waiting on Unearthed Destiny, then this contest is for you!

What exactly is the contest for August? Awful Fan Art.
The awards? The top five winners will get a free copy of Unearthed Destiny!

Scanned drawings, mspaint art, photoshop, any medium you want, but it must be pertaining to Rogue's Bane. Feel free to pick a character, a scene, a new cover or anything else but try and make it as wonderfully awful as possible. I'm not just looking for stick figures fighting with each other, but straight up, well-done awful fan art, the goofier the better. Some examples of terrible fan art can be found here

Just submit your own contribution to this blog in the comments (IMGUR.com works well for image hosting, if you don't have your own), by Saturday, August 27 at midnight. I will select the winners by Sunday afternoon, with a new post detailing the winner's names and their art. Good luck everyone, and I hope we get some delightfully terrible submissions!

Weekend Sales, Contests, and Book 3

Hope everyone had a good weekend! Over this past weekend I've sold a few copies of Unearthed Destiny to those who've finished Rogue's Bane (and for those of you with the infamous Kindle-Backlog, it'll be here when you're ready), and I've actually sold a large number of Rogue's Bane as well, almost as much as the entire last month!

In celebration, I'll be holding a contest starting August 1st dealing with the first book, Rogue's Bane, with the prize being free copies of Unearthed Destiny and possibly some other stuff as well. Stay tuned to find out, but suffice to say it will be fun.

Lastly, I've had an few emails coming in excited that the second book was done so fast (really the first and second have been done for awhile in print form, they're just new to Amazon on the Kindle market) and people were wondering how long the third and final book in the trilogy would take. I am still working on the first draft of the third book, having actually just finished a very major, very large chapter that's sitting in the midway point for now. I hope to have the first draft finished by Christmas 2011, with edits and proofing done i time for a Valentine's Day 2012 release.